Watching: Jolanta

Overview

During the Nazi occupation of Poland, in the heart of World War II, an extraordinary woman named Irena Sendler risked everything to save more than 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto. She gave them new identities, Christian names, and a chance to live, hiding them with families willing to protect them. To keep their real names from being lost forever, she wrote each one on a small piece of paper and placed them in jars, buried under a tree - a silent promise that one day they would be found again. When the war ended, she devoted herself to bringing those children back to their surviving families. She carried out her mission under a single name: Jolanta.